Bush's America asks, Why us?

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President Bush's public pronouncements and stated efforts to build democracy in Iraq (after failed weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida accusations) are underpinned by a misguided view of America's own democracy.

He (Bush) believes that American democracy works because Americans are innately good people, believing in values of tolerance and respect for others and guided by religious faith.


Institutional restraints on the exercise of power by Americans in detention centres and prisons can, in this view, safely be relaxed. Moreover, constitutional protections can be denied even to American citizens, arrested in the United States, when they are suspected of being "enemy combatants."

Those who understand and believe in the theory of the American Constitution should reject the Bush administration's political theory of personal good and evil. We must continue to insist that the United States is a "government of laws and not of men".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BD2F209D-4C66-4824-96A6-184F23AC8ABC.htm